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As bankruptcy looms over Hartford, the capital city would do well to look 600 miles westward, to the largest U.S. municipality ever to file.
Detroit has emerged stronger from its 16-month bankruptcy in 2013-14, by most accounts. Its pockets of...

How far can Gov. Dannel P. Malloy go in distancing himself from state employee unions, in favor of the ideas Republicans have been pushing for years?Shockingly far. On Thursday, just before the state Senate approved a 2016-17 budget that would eliminate...

A new poll shows Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is the second least popular governor in the country.
The survey, by Morning Consult, put the Democratic governor's 29 percent approval rating above only Republican Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas. Brownback is...

In the last two weeks, thousands of cases of bottled water have been dropped off at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Flint, Mich.
They've come from all over the country, including a payload of 15,000 cases from Oklahoma due in town Friday.
But there's...

A state legislator introduced a bill this session that would define some college athletes at public institutions as employees, allowing them to collectively bargain for increased benefits, such as better medical coverage, compensation when their name or...

Detroit is the broken tooth in Michigan's smile. Nevertheless, the preternaturally optimistic governor, from whom never is heard a discouraging word, cheerfully describes his recent foray with a crew cleaning up a park in a particularly, well, challenging...

Rick Snyder, who is hardly a human cactus, warned Michigan's labor leaders. The state's mild-mannered Republican governor, currently in his first term in his first public office, has rarely been accused of being, or praised for being, a fire-breathing...

A Michigan officer who was shot and killed on duty was remembered at his funeral Thursday, attended by hundreds of police from across the state and the nation, as a man who loved dogs and who loved to smile. Wayne State University Officer Collin Rose, 29,...

A Wayne State University police officer died Wednesday, a day after he was shot in the head while on patrol near the Detroit campus. Officer Collin Rose, 29, died about 5:45 p.m. at a hospital, Detroit police Sgt. Michael Woody said. "This is a...

A Wayne State University police officer died Wednesday, a day after he was shot in the head while on patrol near the Detroit campus.
Officer Collin Rose, 29, died about 5:45 p.m. at a hospital, Detroit police Sgt. Michael Woody said.
"This is a...

Michigan, where a man-made water crisis is roiling one of its biggest cities, will consider requiring all infants and toddlers to be tested for lead poisoning as part of an initiative to eradicate children's exposure to the neurotoxin statewide.
The...

Michigan lawmakers immediately tackled major components of their postelection agenda Thursday, passing a long-debated update to energy laws and finalizing legislation designed to keep the U.S. auto industry's home state ahead of the curve on driverless...

The Environmental Protection Agency had sufficient authority and information to issue an emergency order to protect residents of Flint, Michigan, from lead-contaminated water as early as June 2015 — seven months before it declared an emergency, the...